Faculty Profile
Wendong Tao

Professor
Department of Environmental Resources Engineering
422 Baker Lab
Research Areas
Ecological engineering and sustainable wastewater treatment (constructed wetland and similarly constructed ecosystems, anammox-based nitrogen removal processes, ecological design and treatment mechanisms);
Environmental engineering and resource recovery from bioresidues (anaerobic digestion, ammonia and phosphate recovery from wastewater, kinetics and microbial ecology of biological wastewater treatment systems, slow pyrolysis and biochar for removal of emerging contaminants);
Scaling-up design and prototyping of innovative environmental technologies.
Visit Ecological Engineering Laboratory at https://watertao.wixsite.com/wastewater.
Open for a postdoc: Technology development and field study for wastewater treatment and resource recovery; preferred experience in thermodynamic and/or hydrodynamic modeling, electrochemical reactors, and chemical equilibrium modeling.
Current Graduate Advisees
Taye Muslim Hamid
tmhamid@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Tao
- Area of Study: Environmental Resources Engin
Pubudu Wickramasinghe Arachchilage
pwickram@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Tao
- Area of Study: Ecosystems: Land, Water and Air (ELWA)
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